Linkfest: Onion, Backing up, etc.

As his presentation wound down, Jobs said there was “one more thing” he wanted to mention: The iLaunch automatically saves a significant, salient product feature for the end of a presentation, to surprise and delight audiences.

“Do you want to know what the surprise of this unveiling is?” said Jobs to the eagerly nodding crowd. “The iLaunch itself generated this entire presentation, as well as this very surprise.”

The Facebook apps explosion has been talked about in many places. The apps have definitely made Facebook a more interesting place, but app notification is becoming spam-like. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gotten the notification “8 of your friends have added the Deez Nutz application” only to be followed 24 hours later by “200 of your friends have removed the Deez Nutz application.” A day later, I get another notice, “John Smith would like you to Suck on Deez Nutz. Click here to install the Deez Nutz application.”

Baratunde has a hair-raising story about losing his backups. His backup method is far more sophisticated than mine. Mozy, RAID, etc. I’ve noticed he’s using gmail/Google Docs for his documents which makes a lot of sense as well.